STONE CUPS. 



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sides to the sea and the stone enclosures 

 occupy much of the level gronnd. In these 

 were placed the images, and where the 

 human visitors lived while there I do not 

 see. On Nihoa, which is larger and more 

 fertile (there is no vegetation on Necker 

 island except scant grass and a few low, 

 half-starved shrubs), there are stone en- 

 closures, perhaps heiau, but I have not 

 seen them, and no images have been found. 

 Still the latter island has not been worked 

 over so thoroughly as Necker island. As 

 the fishermen had to go a long distance in 

 canoes they would hardly from choice take ^..^^.^ ^^^ ^^,,^^^. ^^^^^^^ ^,.^,,^, ^^.^,^^^.^^ ^^^^^^, 



a rare form of stone dish to contain j^ro- 



visions when their wooden 



unieke were lighter and 

 more capacious. 



Still another stone dish 

 is in the Museum and 

 from its form it might 

 also be a dish for idol 

 offerings, but the handle 

 at one end and the knob 

 at the other are not un- 

 like some wooden dishes 

 in use for fish, etc. The 

 workmanship seems mod- 

 ern and it is quite possi- 

 ble that this is the poor 

 work of some Portuguese 

 or Japanese imitator. It 

 is shown in Fig. 55. The 

 extreme length is 12.5 in. 



Stone Cups. — I would 

 now call attention to the 



FIG. S4- ST(_)NK K(JWI, FROM NIHOA ISI.AND. . f TU • • 



■'^ most common of Hawaii- 



an stone vessels, the cups or saucers, which present every state of elaboration. Thej/ are 



found all over the group, some of them of considerable antiquity, and tlie}' were used 



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